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We got lucky! Daytrippers Celebrity Ambassador KURT YAEGER recently devoted an afternoon to answer a few questions for We Are Daytrippers in the midst of his very busy schedule. Thanks so much Kurt. We love what you said in this video as it was inspirational, encouraging and gives us insight into what makes you, you! Don’t miss these five minutes with Kurt Yaeger:

NOAM CHOMSKY, the eighty-five year old Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finally took the bait. After writing a love letter to him in September he responded that he appreciated it and also wrote that Daytrippers Children’s Charity was “a wonderful mission“ and when asked his favourite thing to do as a child; he said:

“I guess my favorite thing to do as a young child was to play all day at the beach in the summer, and when I was a little older, to curl up in a corner with a pile of books.”

Noam Chomsky as a child

Noam Chomsky was born in 1928 in Philadelphia, a point in time that seems distant to most of us; yet childhood enjoyments remain the same in any era. We love the thought of a young Noam tucked in a small space reading countless books, questioning everything he read and unaware of the man he would eventually become – it aligns with his remarkably insatiable quest for knowledge, transformation, excellence and philosophy of the mind.

Daytrippers receives many applications to fund group days out to the seaside. For some kids, it might be the first or only time they will ever experience the beach. In Chomsky’s quote for We Are Daytrippers about his favourite thing to do as a child, Mr. Chomsky reminds us that a day at the beach and having the time to read a good book is full of rewards.